rotatory
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So, when it comes to rotating players, is it really any wonder that managers are increasingly choosing to use domestic cup competitions as rotatory playgrounds?
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2026
Rō′tary, turning round like a wheel: rotatory: held in rotation.—v.t.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
The sun's action is thus in a manner to force the inherent rotatory energy of the planet into the cyclical secondary operations, all of which converge alike towards the general atmospheric mechanism of return.
From The Energy System of Matter A Deduction from Terrestrial Energy Phenomena by James Weir
In each of the foregoing cases the ball is made to take, after striking another ball, or a cushion, a direction different from that which it would take did no such rotatory motion exist.
From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Louis Hoffmann
Although the gaseous atmospheric envelope of the planet partakes of this general rotatory motion under the influence of the incepting fields, the latter have apparently no action upon it.
From The Energy System of Matter A Deduction from Terrestrial Energy Phenomena by James Weir
